Top 10: Augmented reality
Top ten augmented reality posts from the archives of Make: Online.
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Kinect talking to Flash via Node.js
Wouldn’t it be cool to use a Kinect to interact with that fancy rich user interface you just whipped up in Flash? Well, prepare to be stoked. Interactive agency BLITZ has got you covered. Check out their demo video above. Word has it that they’ll be dropping source code today.
Continue ReadingKinect ‘x-ray’ overlays you with CT-scan imagery
The Kinect allows tracking of users without additional markers. We develop a magic mirror that generated an overlay of a video image with volume visualization from a CT volume. Such a system could be used for education of anatomy. [Via Beyond the Beyond]
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Kinect + Cinder = cool self-portraits
I really like the work Robert Hodgin is doing with a Kinect and Cinder to map a texture onto the Kinect’s sensor output. Check out his Kinect pix on Flickr. (Click pix for big.)
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Super Mario retro room mural
Nathan Roberts wrote a great step-by-step on how he revamped a plain bedroom into something special for his son. And with the pixelated retro Super Mario theme, this should appeal to some older “kids” in our audience as well.
Continue ReadingSound Bubbles
Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer vision toolkit that provides, among many things, facial recognition) and Processing. more info, including the opportunity to download the code and play with it yourself!
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Reactive Cube, a 3D projector tank
These liquid-filled tanks, designed by Graham Plumb, project light through a mixture of water and “a specially formulated emulsion” consisting of “micron-sized particles of oil formulated to stay suspended in water.” Pretty sweet! [Via Spime]
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